Bautz
The Josef Bautz AG was a manufacturer of agricultural equipment with headquarters in the Upper Swabian Saulgau in Baden-Wuerttemberg .
history
The company was founded around 1900 as a harvesting machine factory. Initially, the product range was limited to machines for grass processing, but grain harvesting machines were also manufactured. In 1935 Josef Bautz bought an additional hall in Großauheim near Hanau in order to produce tractors there. But there were only a few prototypes. In 1939 this production hall for armaments production was confiscated. In return, harvesting machines were allowed to continue to be produced in Saulgau. From 1943 to 1945 in the Saulgauer production hall was binding mower (Binder Hall) armor production facility of Zeppelin airship housed in the individual parts of the ballistic liquid rocket assembly 4 (Propaganda name Vergeltungswaffe 2 , shortly V2 ) were produced. In the production of the rocket parts, concentration camp prisoners were used who were held in the Saulgau subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp directly next to the Bautz factory premises.
In 1949 Josef Bautz acquired the design documents for the M1 tractor prototype from Zanker . Based on this, the Bautz AS120 was produced in Großauheim and presented as the first Bautz tractor at the turn of the year 1949/1950. Over the years, Bautz expanded the model range to include tractors with 22 hp. In 1958, after four years of development, Bautz presented the first self-propelled combine harvester, the T600.
After alliances with Nuffield and Hanomag , Bautz gave up tractor production in 1962 after producing 25,000 tractors and concentrated again on the harvesting machine business. A completely new generation of combine harvesters was tested in 1966 with the Bautz Titan. The machines 1110 and 1111, which were available in series from 1968, were equipped with a threshing channel width of 1.04 meters and four tray shakers. The five-straw walker machines 1310 and 1311 had a threshing channel 1.3 meters wide. Water-cooled engines with 75, 110 and 150 HP power provided sufficient drive and propulsion via the three-speed gearbox. In the models 1300 and 1301, power was transmitted to the 15-30 "wheels by means of a hydrostatic transmission . In 1969, the agricultural machinery group Claas bought the company and added its harvesting machines to its own product range.
Tractor models
AS 120
The Bautz company entered tractor production in 1950 with the AW / AS 120. This 14 HP tractor was based on the design documents of the Zanker tractor M1. This tractor already had an electric light and starter system, a belt pulley and a power take-off shaft as standard. It was powered by a single-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine. The version of the AS 120 with 12 HP, which was delivered from 1951 to 1953, was the first independent Bautz model and was powered by a water-cooled two-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine from the manufacturer Motorenwerke Mannheim . From 1954 an air or water-cooled two-cylinder MWM motor was available as a drive. The last AS 120 was produced in 1959.
AS 122
As the little brother of the AS 120, the AS 122 was on the market from 1953 to 1956. It had the same equipment as the AS 120, but had an air-cooled 12 HP MWM single-cylinder diesel engine with a displacement of just 905 cm³. In 1956 an improved variant of the MWM engine was installed. The tractor was renamed AL 122. By the end of production, 2,635 units of both variants had been sold.
200 and 300
With the onset of market saturation for small tractors, Bautz's tractor sales fell sharply in 1957. First the model 200 (1959) was developed and then the model 300 with 20 hp with the same look. These were designed not only as pulling tractors, but also as carrier tugs. Most noticeable was the change in the paintwork: The tugs were now delivered in orange (red-orange) instead of green.
Web links
literature
- Matthias Metzler: The great Bautz chronicle. Agricultural engineering in transition from Bautz to CLAAS . DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-769-00620-8 .
- Udo Bols: Combine harvesters in Germany from 1931 until today . Vol. 1: Bautz, Claas, Dechentreiter, Fahr, Deutz-Fahr, Fella, Fendt. Brilon 2005, ISBN 3-86133-315-5 .
- Klaus Herrmann: Tractors in Germany. Companies and manufacturers from 1907 until today . 3rd revised and expanded edition, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-7690-0582-1 .
- Alexander Oertle: The Tractor Series Manual , 2004
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Knoll: Saulgau . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emsland camp. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 , pp. 477-480.
- ↑ Jürgen Hummel, Alexander Oertle, Jan Sternberg: The big book of combine harvesters , 2008, ISBN 3898804178 , page 15.
- ↑ Tractors - models of all brands in portrait, Weltbild-Verlag, Bautz Karte 03